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Though Reason cannot through Faith’s mysteries see, It sees that there, and such they be; Though it, like Moses, by a sad command Must not come into th’ Holy Land, Yet thither it infallibly does guide, And from afar ’tis all descried.
Though Reason cannot through Faith’s mysteries see, It sees that there, and such they be; Though it, like Moses, by a sad command Must not come into th’ Holy Land, Yet thither it infallibly does guide, And from afar ’tis all descried.
Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
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- Abraham Cowley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1642 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1618–1667)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 476 · printed citation: Cowley · subject: REASON—REASONS
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